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title: The six shirts were done; there was only the left sleeve wanting to… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The six shirts were done; there was only the left sleeve wanting to the last. Who acts: left sleeve. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Six Swans, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Six Swans, sentence 78

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The six shirts were done; there was only the left sleeve wanting to the last.

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**Who acts:** left sleeve · **What happens:** do, be, want · **To what, where:** six shirts

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Six Swans. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (left sleeve), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg640:4:78
# text = The six shirts were done; there was only the left sleeve wanting to the last.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	shirts	shirt	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
7	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	8	expl	_	_
8	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
9	only	only	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	left	left	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	sleeve	sleeve	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
13	wanting	want	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	acl	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past · passive |  | the six shirts |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
| 2 | **be** | past | the left sleeve |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **want** | gerund | the left sleeve *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the last | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent to last=Attribute |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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